Hey,
I wanted to write out some thoughts I had this morning.
During the night, I heard, “Be ye mindful always”. When I woke up this morning, I found the scripture in Chronicles, “Be ye mindful always of his covenant”. I was thinking of that and I asked the Lord what does that mean, being mindful? I heard, “Caring for the things of God and thinking on the things of the Lord.” When I looked up the definition of mindful, it meant taking care of, keeping remembrance of, and being heedful of, which is just what the Lord told me.
The other day, I saw an example of someone seeming to be polite/humble by appearance, but the feeling behind it wasn’t right. I asked the Lord, “What is this I am feeling?” And I heard right back “false humility”. I was seeing what looked like humility, but was not.
So, this morning, when I was talking to the Lord, I asked him, “What is humility Lord? (according to your definition)” And a list of thoughts came flooding down.
Loving your brother
Testifying to what God has done for you (confessing Christ)
Obedience – Obeying the commandments of God
Obeying the feelings of God – doing something
Reproving evil
Being honest with yourself and others
Then came, “the opposite of what the flesh wants.”
Humility in the Spirit is responding to the Spirit and putting into action whatever the will of God is for you. It is a response. The flesh wars against the Spirit of God and every time you obey the will of God, you are being humble in God’s sight.
Then, tonight, when we were reading chapter 10 of your new book, God Had a Son, we were talking about Form and Life. When we were reading about form, the Lord gave me this thought, “Form is false religion, and false religion is false humility.”
When we hide behind a form, we are not being humble in God’s sight. It may look good, but it really is only an appearance and false humility. It is only pleasing to the flesh and it’s doing something other than what the Spirit is saying do; with form, we are really rebelling against the Spirit of God.
I love reading chapter 10. To me, it’s the cap on the whole book. The key is sincerity. If we will stay sincere in our hearts and listen to what the Spirit is saying to us and obey it, we can stay free from form, false religion, and false humility, and any kind of pretense. That’s the way to life everlasting! And if we stay “mindful of his covenant” and always keep it in remembrance, thinking on these things always, and be heedful of it, we will be there already in Spirit. We can live! And stay free and happy – forever! It’s only as hard as we make it! 😎
Amy P.